John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England) is an English comedian and actor best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for co-writing the TV series Fawlty Towers in which he played Basil Fawlty. He won the TV Times award for Funniest Man On TV - 1978 / 1979.

3 Quotes

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

John Cleese

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

John Cleese

Basil Fawlty to Manuel: Oh, I could spend the rest of my life having this conversation—look—please try to understand before one of us dies.

John Cleese